Well here's my next blog, four months later as expected. Since Hurricane Ike is on its way I guess I'm obligated to write something. My dad and I are staying put, while my bro fled Downtown and my mom drove to Austin to stay with Alex (who's going to UT).
We've got our affairs in order for the most part: generators, valuables off the floor, boarded windows, etc. The icing on the cake was getting my new car on a makeshift ramp and into our elevated garage. The only reason I was contemplating going to Hill Country was to save my car from possible flood damage and that shouldn't be a problem now. I figure once my stuff's been secured, driving for three-plus hours isn't going to accomplish much. Leaving isn't going to stop my house from getting flooded, and staying isn't going to kill me.
The major bummer was that I had my Graduate Record Exam canceled. It was scheduled for today at 11 a.m. at the University of Houston's testing center, which is closed until Monday.
As for the GRE, I've decided to go back to school for a master's in sociology, then either go straight into social work or look for a professor job at a community college (where a Ph.D is not necessary). The one thing I realized towards the end of my undergraduate was that I like the discussions we had in those classes (particularly Social Psychology, i.e. social behaviorism) and would like to open people's minds in the same way. Reporting sports got old, however obvious that sounds, and at this point there are other things I want to do outside of a job, which I don't feel are possible if really devoting myself to making it in journalism. It's not something I feel like sacrificing all other aspects of my life for anymore, and having accepted that is quite a feeling.
Not much else going on; just hunkering down in Houston before the storm. By the way, I don't want to here the phrase "hunker down" again during this storm, the news anchors need to retire that one. Just watching my dad flip endlessly through satellite channels (on top of that, it's too freaking loud because he can't here so well anymore). The hurricane hasn't been bad so far. Aside from some wind, the only really bad thing that's happened was when I accidentally erased my brother's entire music library from his iBook (the one I'm currently typing on). iTunes was open and the power cord came loose; for some reason that wiped out everything.
Hopefully I'll write more often from now on. Just haven't felt like putting down my thoughts for some time.
